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What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week
Fusion is the Mirror and Unveiling of Oracle Customer ContemptOracle has punted on delivering integration as a product:IF you consider the definition of integration to be 'supplied as a buyable product and supported by the vendor.' Oracle's definition seems to be integration the same way that Facebook and YouTube are...
Tags: Oracle Corp., maintenance stream
Discussion threads 2009-10-14
Oracle OpenWorld: Getting down to business
Unfaithful Application VisionOracle has punted on delivering integration as a product:IF you consider the definition of integration to be 'supplied as a buyable product and supported by the vendor.' Oracle's definition seems to be integration the same way that Facebook and YouTube are integrated-at the surface only and then 'pushing'...
Tags: Oracle Corp., integration
Discussion threads 2009-10-14
Direction Generale de l'Aviation Civile Uses Web 2.0 to Facilitate Collaboration and Unify 12,000 Staff Members
Direction Generale de l'Aviation Civile DGAC wanted to streamline access points for each agent's workspace, optimizing access to management system content and services, as part of the overall public services modernization project and facilitate collaboration, resources pooling, knowledge sharing, and electronic administrative processes. The challenge was to create a DGAC...
Tags: Web, Oracle Corp., Agent, Virtual Office, Identity, LDAP, Web 2.0, Portals, Collaboration, Real Estate, Directory Services, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Business Operations
Case studies 2009-10-01
WebCenter Suite 11g: Empowering Users to Create an Agile and Intelligent Business
Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g enables organizations to create flexible and rich portals, applications and Web sites, and places robust customization components and enterprise-ready Web 2.0 capabilities directly into the hands of users to increase productivity and drive business agility and intelligence. At its core, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g speeds the...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
White papers 2009-07-01
BT Group Plc Enables Seamless Employee Collaboration Across Technology Boundaries
How does one glue all the disparate services staff need into one personal IT experience and let them work faster, smarter, and more effectively? That was the challenge facing BT Group plc, a world leader in communications. The answer was 'my.bt.com' - an innovative enterprise portal, collaborative community, and composite...
Tags: Collaboration, Oracle Corp., British Telecommunications, BT Group Plc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
Case studies 2009-06-01
Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g New Features
In today's hyper-competitive global economy, the ability to be agile and responsive to change is more important than ever before. Information and the interactions around it have become the key assets of most enterprises, and making correct decisions in shrinking cycle times is the defining operating characteristic of winning companies....
Tags: Workplace, Oracle Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet
White papers 2009-06-01
University of Waikato Supports 3,000 E-Learning Communities With Flexible New Portal
Founded in 1964, the University of Waikato is home to 12,000 students and 1,500 staff on campuses in Hamilton and Tauranga, on New Zealand's North Island. The rapidly increasing number of e-learning systems and applications resulted in a complex and fragmented environment. The challenge was to unify and leverage all...
Tags: Oracle Corp., E-learning, Portals, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet
Case studies 2009-04-01
K. Hovnanian Homes Deploys Portal to Facilitate Internal and External Communication and Collaboration
K. Hovnanian Homes wanted to support rapid growth with an intranet to unify the company across all divisions and states and extend reach to trade partners vendors by providing a unified portal for access to all data, including accounts payable. K. Hovnanian Homes implemented Oracle WebCenter Suite's WebCenter Interaction to...
Tags: Collaboration, Oracle Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Sarbanes-Oxley, Internet, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance
Case studies 2009-03-01
Oracle WebCenter Suite Statement of Direction
The key drivers for today's enterprises are business agility, control, and integration through standards. Business agility allows the flexibility to immediately react to changing market and/or organizational conditions to maximize revenue or minimize potential costs. Control provides the ability to guide and manage the more loosely connected business units required...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Flexibility, Integration, Business Agility, Quality, Business Operations
White papers 2009-03-01
Daelim Industrial Company Optimizes Return on Investment With Flexible Business Portal
Daelim Industrial Company Limited is one of Korea's top engineering and construction companies. Keeping pace with the trend toward expanded portals and an emphasis on openness and increased user participation, Daelim wanted to deliver customized service according to each customer's requirements. However, the organization recognized that its systems needed to...
Tags: Oracle Corp., ROI, Industrial Company, Portals, Engineering, Web Technology, Internet
Case studies 2009-02-01
SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union Engages Employees and Increases Member Satisfaction
This vision guided SchoolsFirst FCU when it began investigating possible replacements for its intranet. The old intranet was unable to supply adequate functionality or workflow processes to support a dynamic and distributed organization. This resulted in maintenance of numerous duplicate and outdated information sources and several navigation and usability issues...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Intranet
Case studies 2009-02-01
Goldsmith Williams Solictors Expands Personalized Portal to Deliver Faster, More Accurate Service
Goldsmith Williams Solicitors wanted to differentiate Goldsmith Williams though a personalized online experience that helps the firm's customers provide superior service for their clients and reduce application turnaround times for remortgaging and conveyancing as well as road traffic accident services. The challenge was to manage constant change by helping brokers...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Accident, Goldsmith Williams Solictors, Portals, Policies And Procedures, Web Technology, Internet, Human Resources
Case studies 2009-02-01
CAMICO Mutual Insurance Drives 50% of Direct New Policy Submissions Via Cost-Effective Online Channel
CAMICO Mutual Insurance wanted to upgrade the company's custom-built extranet application to improve the cost efficiency of content delivery to its customers and facilitate growth in the face of a challenging economic environment through streamlined underwriting and expanded online self-service capabilities that enhance customer convenience. The challenge was to automate...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Extranet, Insurance, Customer Convenience, Networking
Case studies 2009-02-01
JATCO Drives Global Growth With a Single Enterprise Information Portal
Throughout the 1990s, Japanese Automatic Transmission Company JATCO, a manufacturer of automobile gearboxes, transformed its global practices with several major business mergers. JATCO formed a new company, combining two major global automobile corporations. To drive business expansion, JATCO needed to upgrade its IT environment to handle a global system. Furthermore,...
Tags: Drives Inc., Oracle Corp., Enterprise Information Portal, JATCO, Portals, Groupware, Web Technology, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies 2009-01-01
Luxembourg Ministry of National Education Extends Learning With Flexible Education Portal
The Luxembourg Ministry of Education had a clear vision for its virtual learning environment: to provide the country's students with easy access to reliable, validated educational tools and content that could assist them with their studies. With home Personal Computer PC penetration topping 90% in Luxembourg, the ministry considered the...
Tags: Education, Luxembourg, Ministry, Oracle Corp., Portals, Desktops, Networking, Internet, Hardware
Case studies 2009-01-01
Goldsmith Williams Solicitors Accelerates Business Processes With Personalized Portal
For many years, Goldsmith Williams Solicitors, a niche legal practice in the United Kingdom focused on remortgages, conveyancing, and traffic accidents, used a fax/mail system for processing new applications. The firm's management realized it needed to differentiate itself from its competitors and could advance this mission through the strategic implementation...
Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Goldsmith Williams Solicitor, Portals, Web Technology, Internet
Case studies 2008-12-01
Did Oracle burst the enterprise 2.0 startup bubble?
Is the bubble about to burst for the startups shouting "enterprise 2.0" from the rooftops? TechCrunch50 and DEMO and Office 2.0 were full of young, eager companies with fun and frilly applications touting themselves as the next enterprise 2.0 heroes. Some offered white label social network applications...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
Blog posts 2008-09-25
New in Oracle JDeveloper (10.1.3.2.0)
Oracle JDeveloper (10.1.3.2.0) extends the SOA development features from the previous release by introducing the Oracle WebCenter extension. Oracle WebCenter Suite combines the standards-based, declarative development of JavaServer Faces JSF, the flexibility and power of portals, and a set of integrated Web 2.0 services to boost end-user productivity. Oracle WebCenter...
Tags: Oracle Corp., JavaServer Faces, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle WebCenter Suite, Web 2.0, Java, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Internet, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Software
White papers 2007-12-01
Oracle's ultimate grand Fusion
Thomas Kurian, senior vice president of Oracle Server Technologies, spent an hour on stage at OpenWorld  this morning patiently talking through various new features in the company's growing Fusion Middleware portfolio, which includes a laundry list of products, such as SOA Suite, WebCenter Suite, JDeveloper, Application Development Framework,...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Fusion, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber
Blog posts 2007-11-13
Create a JSF Portlet With Oracle WebCenter Suite and JDeveloper
A web portal is a collection of independent web components on a single page. These pluggable user interface components, called portlets, process requests and generate dynamic content from inside portlet containers. Because portlets can obtain data from different data sources, a portal provides users with a unified presentation of views...
Tags: Portlet, Oracle Corp., JavaServer Faces, Oracle JDeveloper, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
White papers 2007-09-21
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